The Supreme Court has struck down a Colorado law that protected youth from conversion therapy – harmful efforts to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity. Intersex youth are disproportionately vulnerable to conversion therapy practices. Of LGBTQ+ youth who are intersex, research by the Trevor Project found that 13% had been subjected to
For Immediate Release: December 18, 2025 Press contact: Sylvan Fraser Anthony, sfraser@interactadvocates.org The US House of Representatives has passed H.R. 3492, a dangerous bill introduced by Marjorie Taylor Greene to criminalize gender-affirming care while making an exception for nonconsensual surgeries on intersex children. H.R. 3492 is the most extreme attack on gender-affirming care to
Today the Supreme Court of the United States issued its decision in US v. Skrmetti, the case challenging Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for youth. The ban, along with every similar statewide ban, contains a hypocritical exception for intersex genital mutilation (IGM) —non-consensual surgeries imposed upon intersex infants and young children. The Court, in
For Immediate Release: June 10, 2025 Press contacts: A. Lazarus Orr, press@transequality.org Sylvan Fraser Anthony, sfraser@interactadvocates.org PDF Available Here. Today, H.R. 3492, a Congressional bill criminalizing gender-affirming care while endorsing intersex genital mutilation, was approved by the House Judiciary Committee. The legislation would restrict lifesaving care for many trans adolescents by wrongly categorizing
The mask is off. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s “Protect Children’s Innocence” Act does no such thing—it plainly states that “genital or bodily mutilation” is “not a violation” when carried out on minors with intersex variations such as ovotestes. It simultaneously strips lifesaving care from trans adolescents. This is the first piece of legislation to explicitly
More than half of states now have laws in place that bar access to gender-affirming care—the consensual, necessary healthcare that allows transgender teens and young adults to feel at home in their bodies. All of these bans contain a so-called “intersex exception”—usually named by the pathologizing term “medically verifiable disorder of sex development” in
World Athletics’ approach to “sex verification” through compulsory sex testing discriminatorily targets women, violating universal principles of equal access to sport. When women are subjected to invasive genetic testing, they are forced to give up privacy about their personal genetic information while governing bodies dictate if they are “woman enough” to play women’s
Trump’s Executive Order, “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” neither defends women nor states any “biological truth.” Instead, it attempts to erase the existence of transgender and intersex people in order to further the administration’s own ideological agenda, which is grounded not in science but rather
For Immediate Release: January 16, 2025 Press contact: Sylvan Fraser Anthony, Legal and Policy Director - sfraser@interactadvocates.org Today, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a groundbreaking report on intersex health, linking the ongoing practice of non-consensual surgery on intersex infants to harmful outcomes and health disparities. It names the denial
Today, Congress threatens to strip many intersex students, especially girls and women, of their right to play sports. Like similar statewide bills that seek to restrict sports participation based on vague definitions of "sex", H.R.28 (and S.9, currently still in the Senate) are discriminatory. They exclude transgender girls from playing on teams with other
